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The Silent One
Phoenix F. Black · YA Afroeurofantasy · Iroko Tree Press
A story of dual heritage and hidden power: the first in a mythical trilogy woven from Yoruba and English tradition.
No child had ever been born a walker.
Not in all of Gardenia's long history. Children came into the world as cryers, whinjers, and crawlers, each more gifted than the last. But a walker? A walker existed only in prophecy. A warning to the overlords. A promise to the oppressed.
Then Deminius was born, able to walk from birth. Born with his father's African fire and his mother's European frost running through his blood, two forces that should tear each other apart, held in impossible balance within one small body.
The overlords heard of the birth within days. The hunt began within hours.
His parents fled Gardenia in darkness, carrying their four-day-old son toward the one place the overlords' reach could not follow. There, the mystics who once shaped his father would now shape the son into something the world had no name for yet.
What follows is not an adventure. It is a formation. Thirteen years of silence, discipline, fire and frost. Of becoming, slowly and deliberately, what prophecy always knew he would be.
The overlords are still searching. They do not know that what they fear is already growing.
The walker's journey has begun.
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